THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921
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THE DEMOCRATS AND THE
TREATY.
There are 37 democratic Senators who
have the privilege of voting on ratiflca-
' tion of the separate treaty with Ger-
Corner Fourth and Church Sts. ' .
. many and if they should all vote against
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W. M. BELL Advertising Mj.T. against it and a minority of the repub
licans join them, there is a reasonable
chance of the senate saving this republic
the shame and humiliation of doing
this cowardly and traitorous trick.
But we are told there is little likeli
hood of the democratic senators making
any concerted effort to defeat the treaty.
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not 'otherwise credited in this nancr j when they stubbornly insisted upon the
and also the local news published j ratification of the Versailles treaty and
heAH rights of republication of special how the senate republicans kept up
dispatches herein also are reserved their turmoil until at length they defeat
ed its ratification. And this thing of
treaties, of one sort and another, has
so long been an issue of intense debate
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921.
WE NEED THE MONEY TO SPEND.
It is, naturally, a very serious ques
tion with the property owners living
along the Statesville and Derita roads
which of these two routes is selected
by the State for its highway from Char
lotte to Statesville. In view of the fact,
however, that whichever one of these
routes may be selected by Chairman
Page as a State road, the other route
will be hard-surfaced by the county high
way commission, a considerable morsel
of comfort can be taken and utilized
by the losers in this contest.
What is of general concern to the
county is the expediency of getting the
State to let the contract for this road
so that construction work may get un
der way. The State has between $600,
C00 and $700,000 to spend in this county
on this one road, figuring 22 miles at
the average cost at Avhich contracts are
being awarded these days, and the turn
ing loose of that amount of money in the
county is bound to be stimulating. And
besides all that, the road is insistently
needed. We can hardly imagine one
more important either to Charlotte or
to the general community at the other
terminal. This road will give access to
a wide and versatile rural population at
the base of the mountains into the pied
mont country and the sooner it is granted,
obviously the sooner will be the subse
quent development of these communi
ties get under way.
GOOD WORK OF TWO OFFICERS.
The splendid efforts .on the part of
Detectives Bradley and Riley within the
past few days in rounding up alleged
liquor runners are entitled to public
applause. What these two officers have
done shows what can be done when
those who are given the duty of en
forcing the law lay aside other duties
and concentrate their energies upon
some single task. It is just such men as
these who are needed to have general
supervision over this important class of
sleuthing in these times, men who
know no distinction, to whom evtty
class of citizens look alike, who have no
choice between the races when they ap
prehend evil-doing and who believe in
doing their duty fearlessly, let the re
sults be what they may.
We may have ever so many laws relat
ing to the manufacture and sale of whis
key, but bootleggers and moonshining will
be rampant so long as officers are indiffer
ent towards the enforcement of these
laws. They can either make or unmake
this law. If they propose to do their
duty without regard to who may be in
fringed upon and without respect to
persons, it will be only a short time
until the fear of the law has been in- y
stilled in the hearts of evil-doers. L.et
them proceed, however, in a slovenly,
hit-and-miss fashion and society will be
surfeited with crimes.
for it simply to get rid of it.
That, however, is not the duty of these
minority senators. If they were in favor
of the Versailles treaty, and practical
ly all of them were, they are obliged
to be opposed to this treaty by reason of
conviction and if, therefore, they swal
low their convictions and vote for this
separate peace, it is not going to be easy
for them to stand up later in the pres
ence of their constituents and defend
themselves on the score of -consistency.
There is a larger reason than that
why they should vote against it. It ; is
because the people of this country are
opposed to this separate peace. And we
are not talking entirely of those who
through good report and evil, followed
Mr. Wilson with blind devotion. We are
referring also to that element of the
voters of this country who take their
medicine out of Mr. Lodge's spoon and
who look to him for their guidance and
direction. They recollect that upon one
occasion back yonder before reason was
swept from Mr. Lodge by a cavalcade
of blind rage toward Mr- Wilsson, the
Massachusetts senator, amid great ac
claim, and standing on the tips of his
toes, shouted to the whole world that
it would never do for the United States
to even think of agreeing to a separate
peace with Germany. "It would brand
thjs nation with everlasting shame," he
said and the people believed him. They
believe him to this day even though he
proposes, by his vote on this particular
treaty, either to make himself a liar
or to be willing to sell out the honor
and dignity and good name of this re
public to satisfy his hatred against the
former President.
There is still another reason and a
good one why these democratic senators
should vote against the treaty, and for
that matter, every other true-blooded
American citizen among them, it is be
cause Germany is particularly anxious
that this specific treaty be ratified. It
has already been indicated in German
newspapers that Berlin's interpretation
of this pact is that it means a break
ing away of America from the. Allies, a
definite, clear-cut schism that will be
hard to heal. And, of course, Germany
is glad of that. It would be very delight
ful if America and the Allies should be
come permanently estranged. That
would make it exceedingly difficult for
the Allies ever to enforce the terms
of the Versailles treaty. That would
make it easy for Germany, even though
technically to have lost the war, to win
it eventually by refusing to accept the
punishment agreed upon as fit for her
people.
How any set of senators, who claim to
be .patriotic, who make any sort of pre
tention at all to loyalty to what this
great nation fought for in the war and
what its tens of thousands of sons bled
and died for, can deliberately turn their
backs upon peoples who walked with us
through the welter of Gehenna and de
liberately play into the hands of the
enemies of civilization, is a problem too
intricate for us to solve. It is not solv
able except by admitting that the Unit
ed States senate is no longer stirred to
action by a compelling sense of duty,
but that it is merely living on the rem
nants of wrath which sustained it in the
days of Mr. Wilson-
PROFANITY AMONG SCHOOL BOYS.
A well known citizen of Charlotte has
in this afternoon's News a communica
tion touching upon a subject that ought
to be of superlative concern to the fath-j
ers and mothers of this comunity,
the common evil of profanity among
young boys, and especially those on the
football field. He brings to public atten
tion a situation about which there ia
probably general ignorance. We can
hardly conceive of the parents of these
young fellows in football togs knowing
of the practises of profanity on the field
and that it is regarded with such levity
as the writer of this communication in
dicates. Otherwise, they would be exer
cising themselves to break it up.
It has always been a strange circum
stances that profanity seems to be re
garded so generally as a part of the per
formance on the gridiron. And in the
case of many a young man, it is there
that the habit is formed to stay with
him for the balance of his days. We
happened to know twenty years ago a
young man on a football team in this
state who was cleancut in every partic
ular except that when he got out there
to playing fotball, he simply would drop
into profanity. It seemed that it was as
natural with him as falling off of a log
We chanced upon him again the other
day and the old habit was with him
still. He still mingled frequent oaths
in his everyday conversation. And so it
is with many another young fellow who
starts the use of the language on the
athletic field. He is indulging a habit
that will be difficult to shake off in his
later years.
There are some violations of the con
ventions from' which young men may
get, for the moment, some sort of enjoy
ment and satisfaction, but, for the life
of us, we can not fathom how the
constant use of profanity is suggestive
of anything profitable, pleasant or mirth-
provoking. It is one form of evil doing
that has no joyous fruitage. It gives
nothing back and takes a lot away and
so negative of virtue is it and so positive
of harm that it is difficult to reason why
it is such a widespread habit and why
it is such a increasingly common form
of evil.
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The fact, that the city is ready to lay
several miles more of permanent paving
may indicate to s ome that those who so
frequently find cause to cut up these
paved areas need more territory to ex
ploit with their destructive picks and
shovels.
MR. LINNEY
ON LIQUOR SENTIMENT.
It is not very becoming in the district
attorney of the federal court making a
statement to the effect that sentiment
is reacting against the Volstead act and
thus giving public impression that he is
not very much interested in the enforce
ment of the present' laws relating to
whiskey. Whatever may be the convic
tions of Mr- Linney about these laws,
as an officer sworn to enforce them and
to uphold the Constitution, he should
keep quiet when his opinion might be
construed as favorable toward evil
doers. Mr. Linney said, as quoted in the
newspaper presenting his opinion, that
public sentiment is somewhat indiffer
ent about these matters. It is such state
ments as he makes in Ihis connection
that are calculated to dull the edge of
sentiment and give the bootleggers and
rum-runners encouragement to proceed
with their illicit traffic. If the new dis
trict attorney has been correctly quoted
on this proposition, the public may well
have reason to fear that prosecution of
whiskey cases in the Federal courts in
which he exercises will be lacking in
that zest and earnestness which is be
coming in any public prosecutor, no
matter what h)e may personally think of
fch law be is sworn to defend
WHAT WEEVIL HAS DONE HERE.
From all reports through the county
we have been able to gather, one would
be thoroughly safe in offering a gen
erous reward for the first white bloom
of cotton that can be produced from
Mecklenburg fields today. And there is
no surer evidence that the boll weevil
is getting a good start for a thorough
invasion of local cotton areas next sea
son than can be found in the absence
of cotton blooms at this time of the
year. This status reflects the fact plain
ly enougfi that the boll weevil is well
distributed throughout the county, that
it descended upon cotton fields here in
August and early in September and play
ed havoc with what is commonly known
as the "top crop," that is, the squares
which make in August and open late in
the Fall. The result of this premature
invasion of the weevil can be easily
seen by taking a walk through the fields.
These young bolls that ought now to be
turning toward maturity are hanging to
the stalk dry as powder and thoroughly
dead. The boll weevil has invaded them
and left them lifeless and proceeded
elsewhere. When the insect came to this
county this year, it found nothing it
could work on except this young cotton.
The older bolls were too hard for it to
puncture and it contented itself with
these August squares. And the conse
quence is that Mecklenburg farmers
will pick only such cotton this Fall as
fruited in July and, ordinarily, that
would mean a serious curtailment in
production. With all the other factors
which are militating against even an
average output this season, this addi
tional influence becomes all the more destructive.
Editor of The News:
Having been requested by a number
of persons, and especially the ladies
of the different church circles as to
what would be the necessary linens
and furnishings for a bed at the North
Carolina Orthapaedic Hospital to sup
ply the requirements of a crippil child
for a period of 12 months, we find that
the following list of articles is a mini
mum requirement for a 12 months per
iod, and respectfuplly submit thai the
Institution will be grateful to any in
dividual, society or others, who would
take it upon themselves to either fur
nish these articles by having them
made by their own hands, or to pur
chase all ready-made articles. Such as
sistance and donations will be cf great
financial help to us as you know tho
institution has a 60-bed capacity, and
the furnishing of linens, etc., amounts
to quite an item and expense during a
period of 12 months.
List of articles as follows:
Ten sheets, 63 by 90.
Ten sheets. 54 by 90.
Six pair pillow cases, 18 by
Six pair pillow cases. 22 by
12 gowns, patterns furnished.
Three cretonne bags, 12 by 12.
Three toilet bags, 12 by 12, unbleach
ed cotton.
Six bibs, child's size.
-Twelve face towels, 18 by 32.
Six bath towels, 20 by 40.
Six facfi cloths, or wash rags.
One pair uniform orthopaedic wool
blankets. 60 by 84 to be purchased by
us at your request.
Six counterpanes or Dimity spreads,
63 by 90.
Two pair slumber slippers. We fur
nish material upon request for same.
One toboggan cap.
Anyone desiring to donate an individ
ual orthopaedic bed, springs and mat
tress, cemplete, which will have their
name, or any inscriptionn they desire,
attached to same on a silver plate, may
do so at a cost of $40.
Anyone desiring 1o donate a rubber
tired wheel chair, which is very neces
sary, may do so at a cost of $40, and
same will be tvi yed as above.
Sincerely yours.
North Carolina Othopaedic Hospital.
By R. B. BABIXGTOX, President,
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For several days, we roam arounu
with money in our jeans and seldom
can a thing be found to which our
fancy leans. But when the golden bird
has flown, we see much junk we
wish to own that missed us when we
had a bone. It's now beyond our
pneans. ,
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so, but it's a truthful tale to say that
their wares
when we have kale. It's only when we
are dead broke that they display some
stylish cloak, and then the price is
quite a joke. It makes the paupers
quail.
When cash is short, each place we go
we run across swell stuff, but we oou'd
scarcelv raise the dough to buv a- DOX
of snuff. With filthy lucre status qt
it makes no difference what they s w,
for we have no greenbacks to blow.
Sometimes fate is rough.
Carry hefty wads a week and scarcely
will you see a single- useful bargain
freak to bring you surplus glee. As
long as you haul round a sum ou
never sigh for chewing gum or crav: a
sw'ag of monkey rum. You are fancy
free.
But soon your cool cash will vamoose
and you will fret and frown, for mer
chants thon will turn aloosi tho bar
gains in the town. You cravo to ride
home on the car. You yean; for some
big black cigar, and often strike a sec
ret bar where brandy has gonk? down.
Plant some lucre in the bank or you
will see the day when you will want to j
walk the plank because you nave no
pay. The minute your last cent goes
the best plays hit the picture shows and
chances for an auburn nose will make
you pine away.
Copyright, 1021, by Xews Publishing Co.
SECOND FLOOR
DEPENDS ON HOW THE'Y ARE
HITCHED.
It is interesting to watch the capers of
of some men in the always engaging
study of community development, to
watch what this man will ao under
given circumstances and what that man
will do if conditions are not exactly as
he would like to have them. There are
some who can always be found in the
rear lines, plugging and plodding away,
caring for nothing except that the dis
tance to the coveted goal be' swiftly
covered. And then there are some, we
hope their number is becoming obsolete,
who will refuse to pull at all unless
they are hitched exactly right and
hitched right up in the lead, in plain
view of the multitude, stationed where
the onlooking crowd is bound to see
then first of all, and where the plaudits
will give them initial greeting. We have
no admiration for men of that character
in the great business of community co
operation and, for that matter, we know
of nobody else who has. No matter what
their capacities may be, how versatile
their talents, how engaging their per
sonality, how successful their efforts,
sooner or later team-work becomes well
nigh impossible with them in the lineup
at all.
SCARCITY OF VEGETABLES.
The presence on the market of turnip
greens, delectable or despictable, as one's
own gastronomic caprice may deter
mine, reminds us of the scarcity of gar
den products which one runs across in
the city stores these days. Ordinarily,
this time of the year would be fetching
to the markets an abundance of all
sorts of vegetables common to this
clime, and practically all of them
are, but there is a very acute shortage
of even the crudest of garden products
Ic has been a fierce year with gardeners
all around, beginning away back yon
der in the spring and lasting right up
to the first destructive . frost. Drought
cut short early vegetables after a pro
tracted cold spring had given them a
belated start and the torrid heat in
August and September put swift end to
the Fall gardens. This accounts for the
absence of tender, delicious vegetables,
fresh from the fields of local growers,
on the market these days and their uni
form scarcity all summer-
THE EVIL OF PROFANITY.
Editor, The News:
Standing in front of a hotel in a
nearby town my attention was attract
ed by a group of high school boys at
tired in fcctball toggery, just in from
practice. Their conversation was eag
er, vivacious and about one-third pro
fanity. I am not easily rhocked, though I
turned away in alarm over what this
growing and unchecked practice on the
part of strong, clean looking boys, who
are to become our future citizens.
In conversation with one of my own
boys, who is a candidate for the Char
lotte High school team, I asked if all
the football players on his team used
profane language. He answtred frank
ly and openly that most of them did.
I remarked that the coach should sum
marily dismiss from the team any boy
who defiled the team by the use of pro
fane language. He replied, "Yes, he
should, but he does it himself."
Football is good clean sport and mak
es manly, fearless boys. Can it be
kept clean and wholesome when pro
fanity is bandied from mouth to mouth
and not only tolerated but indulged in
by officials themselves?
I feel that I voice the sentiment of
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all who enjoy clean sport when I offer
the suggestion that the student body
or faculty of the Charlotte High school
rise in their might and indignation
against this groving evil and see that,
only boys who are clean and knightly,
both in speech and manner, be permit
ted to hold a position of honor on the
Charlotte football squad and that the
personnel of the squad reflect the per
sonnel of the Charlotte High schools.
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INFORMATION BY REQUEST
,. There is no longer any doubt as to the
genius of Dr. D. W. Daniel as a story
teller and after-dinner speaker. Any
man who can provoke Governor Hard
ing to repeated laughter is entitled to
the distinction without further misgiv
ing - , .
BOTTLERS ENDORSED
PROPOSED SALES TAX
Raleigh, Sept. 29. Adoption of n
resolution protesting against the pro
posed excise tax on manufacturers of
soft drinks in the new revenue act and
favoring a manufacturers' sales tax on
all industries featured the eighth an
nual convention of the North Carolina
bottlers association here. The resolu
tion was addressed to North Carolina
members of Congress, the Senate Fi
nance Committee and the House Ways
and Means Committee.
James Vernon, Jr., president of the
American Bottlers of Carbonated Bev
erages, the national organization, ad
dressed the convention, outlining the
fight made for elimination of the en
cise tax on the industry and appealing
to North Carolina bottlers to urge
th'elr representatives in the national
legislative body to oppose the pro
vision. Chester Brown, of Asheville, was re
elected president; E. J. Lane, of Hen
derson, was named vice-president, and
F. L. Johnson, of Statesville, was re
elected secretary treasurer.
2,000 pair new Fall Shoes
in our Opening Sale Satur
day morning, 10:30, 209-211
West Trade street. A shoe
for every foot.
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We are offering for this week only all refrig
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This only applies to the sample line which we have
on our flow
Erskine R. Smith, Inc.
Charlotte, N. C.
New Fall Styles In
Mens Footwear
Among the large number of
new styles now on display is
this brogue in dark brown
calfskin.; It is substantially
made of A-l materials
throughout, and is truly a
great Aralue at
$5.50
THE BEST KNOWN SHOE IN THE WORLD FOR 50 YEARS
Our shipments of Fall styles for men, women and children have
been arriving for two weeks, and we believ we have the shoe you
fiesire. Prices range from J5.50 to $9.50.
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38 East Trade St.
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Novelty Silk, Crepes, Satins, and Crepe de
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. $12.95 to $29.50
Women's Suits
Of Tricotines, Serges and Jerseys. Straight
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Blouses
Georgettes, Wash Silks, Crepe de Chines and
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